Lifetime Issue of Julius Caesar

366, Lot: 748. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-February 44 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.94 g, 10h). Lifetime issue. Rome mint; P. Sepullius Macer, moneyer. Wreathed head right; star of eight rays to left / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory on outstretched right hand and scepter set on star with left. Crawford 480/5b; Alföldi Type V, 116-9 (A37/R20); CRI 106a; Sydenham 1071; RSC 41; RBW 1679. Good VF, toned, area of weak strike, some die wear on obverse.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.